Word: tall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tall, jovial Howard Bruce was director of matériel for the Army Service Forces in 1944-45, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in "developing and managing the greatest military procurement program in history." He was a Democratic national committeeman from Maryland for 14 years, lives with his wife in Elkridge, a Baltimore suburb...
...Hour Has Come . . ." Today Spaak lives simply in a modest bourgeois neighborhood, with his tall, good-looking wife, his son Fernand (who served in the British navy) and his two younger daughters. He used to be an inveterate tennis player, once was tactless enough to beat King Gustaf of Sweden ("Am I a courtier? I am a Socialist!"). Lately Spaak (a 200-pounder) has given up the sport, presumably haunted by the memory of his belt giving way on a Brussels court...
...word "Dominion." In 1926 Prime Minister King accepted it in the Imperial Conference's definition of Canada's nationhood.* Of late there have been rumbles. (A bill to change "Dominion Day" to "Canada Day" passed the House two years ago, died in the Senate.) Last week tall, talkative Bona Arsenault, Liberal from Bonaventure, introduced a bill to strike out "Dominion" from all acts and regulations...
...American women," said he, "are wonderful-long in legs, not much in rear or breasts, but marvelously small in waist. The arm just aches to curve around." The female Mexican form is fine too, but different: "Short, luscious, round, delicate." Clothing it in "dresses designed for tall, slim and fair women ... is as becoming as a pair of pistols on the Holy Christ...
...entertainment of the afternoon with a post-intermission selection of beer music in true Austrian style, fairly bringing down the house. Known otherwise as "The Hungry Five," these gentlemen sported the thickest of gutterel accents, the nattiest of knee-length stockings, and a monstrous tuba that was seven feet tall if it was an inch, grinding out such old favorites as "If You Knew Brunnhilde Like I Know Brunnhilde" ("wow--wow--wow what a frau") and Becthoven's 10th Symphony which smacked suspiciously of "Roll Out the Barrel." Fifteen minutes of slapstick were never more enjoyable as this bizarre ensemble...